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		<h1><span>Hovis </span>Presenter</h1>
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	    and network control of slaves</div>
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				<li class="first"><a href="http://www.iantomey.com">Ian Tomey</a> (Author)</li>
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			<h3>Hovis Presenter<span></span></h3>
		  <p>is a lightweight application for running presentations that require fast video startup</p>	
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            <h3>Installation<span></span></h3>
            <p><strong>It's a zip file.</strong> Unzip and run it.</p>
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            <h3>Starting<span></span></h3>
            <p>Running the app gives the start up screen:<br />
            <img src="images/doc_opening.JPG" alt="opening" width="383" height="263" /></p>
            <p>If you create a new presentation, you will immediately be asked to save the presentation file. This is because <em>any videos or pictures must reside in or below the directory the presentation file is saved in.</em> There is no technical reason for this, it is just that if I enforce this then you will always know where the content is, not scattered all over your machine, so when you need to copy the stuff to another machine in a hurry, you will not be missing any files! </p>
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            <h3>The Editor Screen<span></span></h3>
            <p><img src="images/doc_main.JPG" alt="main" width="414" height="359" /></p>
            <p>From here you can drag and drop files from explorer into the application. Re-order your slides by clicking and dragging them. Delete them by pressing the Delete key.</p>
            <p>Selecting a single item will enable the script textbox at the bottom of the screen. Here you can optionally enter a script hint to display on the presenter screen.</p>
            <p>The Load Thumbnails button will do as it says, load up thumbnail preview images into this screen, making it a bit easier to edit. It is not done automatically because if you get any trouble in the middle of a presentation and have to restart the app, the last thing you want is for an extra few seconds wait as it loads up these images. So by default they are not shown.</p>
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            <h3>Video Thumbnail/Previews<span></span>/Next Slide Image</h3>
            <p><strong>The thumbnail shown for the &quot;load thumbnails&quot; command or shown as the next slide for a video is not captured from the video stream, this ad</strong>ds unwated extra complexity and may slow things down. Instead, create a directory called &quot;previews&quot; in the same directory your presenation file is saved.</p>
            <p>You then need to add a .png file for the video. It must have exactly the same name, except with a .png extension. E.g. if the video is London.wmv the preview would be London.png.</p>
            <p>To create the preview, you can't do better than installing <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC Media Player</a> and selecting 'Snapshot' from the Video menu. This will create a .png snapshot in your &quot;My Documents/My Pictures&quot; directory. Rename it to match the name of the video and move into the preview directory.</p>
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            <h3>Running the Presentation<span></span></h3>
            <p>Selecting Run from the main menu brings up the run dialog.<br />
            <img src="images/doc_run.JPG" alt="run" width="417" height="370" /></p>
            <p>Select how you want to view the presentation from the top. If you have dual monitors then those options will be enabled. &quot;Monitor #1&quot; will be the monitor marked as 1 in the display control panel. (this has proved to be wrong on some systems, I'll change this at some point. for the time being if the screens appear wrong, just choose the other option)</p>
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            <h3>Network/Control Settings</h3>
            <p>This part of the run dialog box allows you to specify the network options for your session. <strong>If you are just using HovisPresenter locally on one machine, select Master/Local only and make sure nothing is entered in the list of Slaves.</strong></p>
            <p>Selecting <strong>Master/Local </strong>and entering a list of slave machines will attempt to control those machines. Changing a slide on the master machine will change it on the slaves (of course you have to be running HovisPresenter on the slave machine). Make sure that the port on the master and slave machines match.</p>
            <p>Selecting <strong>Slave (No Local Control)</strong> will put that instance of HovisPresenter into slave mode, meaning that the control of changing slides will not be able to be made locally, but only from the master machine. The name and/or IP address of the slave machine is shown in the Local Hostname / IP control. This can be copied into the &quot;slaves&quot; text box on the master machine.</p>
            <p>If a slave machine is not connected to a master it will show a network disconnected icon in the top left hand corner.</p>
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            <h3>Presenter Screen, Keys, Script<span></span></h3>
            <p>When running a presentation these keys are active. These will be changable in a later version. Note if the machine is running as a slave the only valid keypress is Esc to end the presentation on the local slave machine.</p>
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                <th scope="row">Key</th>
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                <th scope="row">Page Up</th>
                <td>Previous Slide</td>
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                <th scope="row">Page Down</th>
                <td>Next Slide</td>
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                <th scope="row">Esc</th>
                <td>End Presentation</td>
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                <th scope="row">Space</th>
                <td>Show Script</td>
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                <th scope="row">Home</th>
                <td>Go to First Slide</td>
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                <th scope="row">End</th>
                <td>Go to Last Slide</td>
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            <p><strong>So you are running the presentation, but the main presentation screen, well its the same as any other</strong>. The presenter window however is a little different. Normally it will look something like this:<br />
            <a href="images/doc_presenter.JPG"><img src="images/doc_presenter.JPG" alt="" width="360" height="225" /></a></p>
            <p>The 'Current' label on the left will also give you status information for both the presenter and presentation windows (and any networked slaves when that is finished).</p>
            <p>If you had set a script for the current slide in the editor and press the Show Script key then your presenter will change to:<br />
            <img src="images/doc_presenter_script.JPG" alt="" width="360" height="225" /></p>
            <p>Videos will play in the presenter window if they are the current slide, though the timing may be off with the presentation window. You will however see when they have finished, you get a status message.<br />
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